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Reminds me of the fisherman call where you could sign up to have a professional fisherman give you a wake up call. https://soranews24.com/2017/05/12/japanese-f
by pelagic_sky 2y ago
Reminds me of the fisherman call where you could sign up to have a professional fisherman give you a wake up call.
https://soranews24.com/2017/05/12/japanese-fishermen-start-morning-wake-up-call-service-to-help-you-get-your-lazy-butt-out-of-bed/ https://soranews24.com/2017/05/12/japanese-fishermen-start-m...
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago“Good morning! Are you up?” asks the fisherman in the video, to which the user replies “Yes, thanks to you. Are you on your ship?” “Yeah, I got up at 3, so I’m already on the sea,” he replies, before adding “I caught a really big fish.” I’m not sure how much demand there is for this product, but that really brought a smile to my face.
- wil421 2y agoI don’t speak Japanese but I would pay for this. Trying to get up and run before 6 is a chore. Having a fisherman wake up call would be awesome and motivating. Especially for someone who loves fishing.
- Brajeshwar 2y agoI found Wakie[1] in 2015 while on a project in London. Every morning at a specific time you set, a stranger (real person and no AI) would call you and talk to you briefly, waking you up. I used it for about a month. 1. https://wakie.com https://wakie.com
- _def 2y agoHow interesting, can you share some pros and cons from the one month experience? Was it always the same person?
- Brajeshwar 2y agoThere was always a different caller. One thing I vividly remember was when I found it really hard to understand a pretty heavy Scottish accent. I'm not random-social enough to be talking to new people every day, but it was a fun experience. Fun for that short interval but not really my type of thing.
- torginus 2y agoI would prefer this very much to Jocko Willink
- BurningFrog 2y agoLast year it was a real fisherman. Next year it will be an AI.
- throw678937 2y ago[dead]
- klabb3 2y agoBut AI is like video games, it can’t emulate sacrifice and other deep human dynamics because there’s no stake. If you die you restore from last save point. For AI you have infinite no-memory interactions, which changes the dynamic. In other words, your actions don’t have lasting consequences. The few games that succeed in building something deeper (for me RDR2 but you take your pick) have to carve out sacrifice and character out of the player’s time, which is finite.
- zparky 2y agoWell said. If I signed up for this and I knew it was AI calls, I would likely not pick up. But if I knew it was a person calling me, there's a much stronger emotional incentive to pick up and talk to them.
- cootsnuck 2y agoExactly. These are the things I think many companies will fail to realize as they slap "AI" onto and into their products and services.
- Ferret7446 2y agoGiven Japan's extreme conservatism, I doubt it.
- sudahtigabulan 2y agoCheck out their robots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_robotics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_robotics Female companion robot as early as 2005.
- sexy_seedbox 2y agoI want a wake up call from David Goggins.